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What About Dating and Adolescent relationships?
Extremely gifted people differ from each other in many ways. What does this mean? Adolescence is a difficult time for many people, and social and emotional issues are sometimes additionally exacerbated in the exceptionally or profoundly gifted adolescent when navigating friendship connections, romance, and greater independence in school and home.Many extremely intelligent young people have […]
What’s a Parent to Do If Their Child Talks Too Much?
There are steps you can take when this happens Most parents are delighted and proud when their child shows advanced language skills. After all, that means the child is probably very bright, right? But what if that child turns into such a talker that they interrupt others, demand more attention than you or their teacher […]
How Giftedness, Personality, and Dabrowski Fit Together
Extremely gifted people differ from each other in many ways. What does this mean?What About Dating and Adolescent relationships? Adolescence is a difficult time for many people, and social and emotional issues are sometimes additionally exacerbated in the exceptionally or profoundly gifted adolescent when navigating friendship connections, romance, and greater independence in school and home.Many […]
Yes, You Can Actually Estimate How Smart Your Child Is!
Use the Free Ruf Estimates™ of Levels of Gifted I have found that the single most important factor for achieving academic—as well as social and emotional success—is whether or not the child fits their schooling environment. Many parents wonder how their children compare to other children. They worry about how to select the best school for their […]
Cutting Science Funding Affects Everyone
… and some ways you can help to stop it As someone who works with incredibly able, intelligent people, many of them are one form of scientist or another. First, funding cuts would devastate some current work while crippling some research programs that will remain but not in their original state. This also affects who […]
